Publication - Statistics

Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2012

Published: 12 September 2013
Topic: Marine and fisheries
ISBN: 9781782568124

A detailed overview of landings of sea fish; the Scottish fishing fleet; and the number of sea fishermen employed.

Table 1.7c Quantity and value of all landings into Scotland by district and main species ¹: 2008 to 2012

	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
	Quantity (tonnes)					Value (£'000)
Eyemouth
Haddock	128	138	30	223	182	116	133	35	283	206
Whiting	47	54	29	31	22	39	30	24	29	20
Other demersal	56	89	44	46	39	92	150	76	77	70
Total demersal	231	281	103	299	243	247	313	135	389	297
Mackerel	6	18	25	47	39	5	15	20	45	46
Other pelagic	-	-	0	0	-	-	-	0	0	-
Total pelagic	6	18	25	47	39	5	15	20	45	46
Edible crabs	198	211	215	247	303	214	226	238	318	391
Lobsters	112	149	149	192	186	1,151	1,594	1,401	1,962	1,787
Nephrops	1,620	1,792	1,254	1,308	1,271	3,844	4,001	3,168	4,000	4,212
Scallops	48	235	145	44	31	121	384	264	82	57
Squid	29	11	106	-	2	83	18	236	-	5
Velvet crabs	86	72	34	60	60	132	116	55	97	101
Other shellfish	18	3	0	16	11	10	1	1	52	28
Total shellfish	2,110	2,472	1,902	1,868	1,865	5,555	6,340	5,362	6,511	6,582
Total landings	2,348	2,771	2,030	2,213	2,147	5,808	6,669	5,516	6,944	6,925
Fraserburgh
Cod	559	459	419	330	234	1,011	791	776	645	410
Haddock	2,947	3,782	3,294	2,486	2,416	2,008	2,262	2,735	2,304	1,872
Hake	145	130	130	103	50	119	99	128	93	59
Halibut	81	63	49	22	-	409	402	366	210	-
Lemon sole	196	136	148	163	92	407	240	285	410	189
Ling	185	204	164	110	75	236	268	222	176	106
Megrims	333	246	129	101	48	823	604	267	284	97
Monkfish	1,696	1,289	1,056	792	527	4,726	4,105	3,372	2,758	1,707
Plaice	171	108	99	132	94	107	58	52	75	54
Saithe	598	579	400	539	245	317	382	344	599	258
Whiting	1,788	1,407	984	1,259	1,085	1,311	1,009	936	1,264	926
Witches	369	325	271	231	184	417	389	317	286	188
Other demersal	149	167	79	91	99	255	264	139	194	260
Total demersal	9,213	8,895	7,221	6,359	5,148	12,144	10,873	9,940	9,300	6,126
Mackerel	5,464	11,740	7,991	10,465	10,856	3,610	9,999	6,599	11,736	9,741
Other pelagic	2,361	3,213	8	880	2,715	688	956	3	400	1,167
Total pelagic	7,824	14,953	7,999	11,345	13,571	4,298	10,956	6,601	12,136	10,907
Edible crabs	332	338	430	481	471	435	449	573	650	626
Lobsters	12	22	20	26	24	121	251	188	261	244
Nephrops	11,219	11,889	10,961	6,809	4,366	30,101	23,893	25,496	25,203	17,162
Scallops	683	953	796	596	477	5,674	1,874	1,334	1,244	980
Squid	223	390	673	220	98	592	929	1,965	1,195	390
Velvet crabs	44	63	64	68	75	68	96	115	130	133
Other shellfish	5	5	2	3	2	4	6	4	4	3
Total shellfish	12,519	13,659	12,947	8,203	5,515	36,995	27,499	29,676	28,686	19,537
Total landings	29,557	37,507	28,166	25,907	24,234	53,437	49,328	46,217	50,122	36,570

(1) Main species are those where the quantity landed into Scottish districts was 20 tonnes or over in 2010.

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